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Getting Started with AWS Cloudformation

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AWS Cloudformation is a tool and declaritive language you can use to declare what you want your “stack” (i.e. your deployment of AWS resources) to look like. You define all the resources you want AWS to spin up in a blueprint document, click a button, and then AWS magically creates it all. This blueprint is … Read more

AWS with Python3 using Boto3 Quickstart (Linux)

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Following on from the https://www.geekmungus.co.uk/aws-cli-quick-start-linux guide, let’s see about how you can connect to your AWS from Python3 using Boto3. If you’ve not already done it, and if you’re not using the “default” credentials, you can specify a particular profile to use by adding it to an environment variable for example the below; where the … Read more

AWS CLI Quick Start (Linux)

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A quick guide to getting started with AWS CLI from your Linux machine. Amazon provide some good documentation (see links below), but I’ve summerised the key steps here for brevity. Install or Update the AWS CLI Firstly install the AWS CLI package with: Once installed, we now need to get the AWS CLI configured. Quick … Read more